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Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Ryszard Kapuscinski (b. 1932), Polish journalist. Independent on Sunday (London, Sept. 1, 1991).

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